VIDEO: 81% of Healthcare Executives Have Reported a Compromise: IT Rewind Episode 49

An alarming percentage of healthcare executives reported having been victims of a data breach. There is an opportunity for MSPs in the healthcare vertical. Are you taking it? Meanwhile, malware campaigns are on the rise! To hear more, just click play!

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Hey there! You’ll all looking dapper today. Welcome back for another edition of IT Rewind.

If you’re not already aware that health care IT is a huge opportunity for MSPs, a recent survey from KPMG just might open your eyes. The recent report states that a whopping 81% of health care executives say that their organizations have been compromised. Malware, botnet and other forms of cyber attacks were cited as the types of invasions that have occurred over the past two years. Even more alarming is that only half of the executives that have been compromised feel as though they’re adequately prepared to prevent future attacks. There’s your opportunity! Get in there and prepare them! The greatest risks within these organizations included outside attackers, sharing data with third parties, employee breaches, wireless computing and inadequate firewalls.

As if those numbers weren’t enough to make your skin crawl, a recent report by Cyphort showed that malvertising campaigns are up 325% this year. The report estimates that the cost of ad-fraud will exceed 6 billion in 2015. The report takes a deep dive into the mind of a cyber criminal and describes how they use ad networks to infect and compromise user machines and devices.

This week’s spotlight goes out to Josh Way of Altum IT. Earlier this week, Josh was watching an episode of MSPtv on the Continuum Facebook page when he decided to leave a comment about our Continuum mugs. Well, we took notice and although we didn’t have any more mugs, we decided to send Josh a care package! This just goes to show that you should ALL be on social media. If you’re active, you just might get some SWAG!

I’m also proud to announce that Navigate 2015, Continuum’s second annual user conference is completely SOLD OUT! We couldn’t be more excited to see you all in Las Vegas. For those of you who haven’t booked your ticket, be sure to hop on the wait list! There may still be some hope. So I’m saying there’s a chance! Head over to www.continuum.net/navigate2015 to get on the wait list.

As always, read the full stories that we covered today by clicking on the links below, as well as the featured Continuum blog post of the week.

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